MOTHER COURAGE: A LEGACY OF SURVIVAL Mother Courage is an unbraidable knot of contradictions: both fearless and feckless, wise and uneducable, maternally caring and emotionally aloof. A camp-following trader, she picks the bones of a war-withered economy to feed her fatherless children. Yet her ...

Never before in the history of the United States had a war created such disillusionment as the Vietnam War. From the soldiers who fought in it, and the students who protested it, to the politicians who funded it, they all felt that somewhere along the line that they had been lied to. Whether it wa...

When the crew of the Engola Gay took off just before dawn on the morning of August 6, 1945, they carried with them a cargo that would change history and the lives of millions. The bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the attack on Nagasaki three days later, brought World War II to a stagg...

Alborz ZinabadiAmerican LiteratureDecember 15, 2000Rhythm and BluesThere are many types of music in the world but the one that stands out in everyone's mind is the sound of Rhythm and Blues. It has been around for many decades. It has captured people's interest around the world. Rhythm and Blues(R&B...

D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself i...

D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself i...

D-Day, June 6 1944.Air-Power: Significant or not?A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself int...

In the Second World War, a man named Adolph Hitler, the leader of the infamous Nazi regime, had a plethora of things on his mind. From guarding the stricken land of Poland against Soviet advancement, to making sure the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean in France were closely guarded, Hitler had ...

In the Second World War, a man named Adolph Hitler, the leader of the infamous Nazi regime, had a plethora of things on his mind. From guarding the stricken land of Poland against Soviet advancement, to making sure the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean in France were closely guarded, Hitler had ...